The fundamental Second Amendment debate has reached a stalemate. On the one side are those who believe that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense against crime. On the other are those who consider the right to bear arms to be a collective right to maintain a militia. But there is a third theory of the right to bear arms—a theory that was once generally agreed upon but has largely been forgotten: the right to bear arms is an individual right for common defense.
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